On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:44:12 +0900, dh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Yet you want to believe that some supposed mindless force
>has some significant though not deliberate influence on everything
>in the universe at the same time...
i don't want to believe anything. i want to observe and draw
conclusions from the observed data that i gather and record.
>or at least that's the impression
>I got from you. Then again you completely flip-flop from one idea
>to another, and one belief to another.
that could apply to just about every sentence ever uttered by any
one individual at any time any where on earth, if dissected.
>I know you said you believed
>in multiple lives for individuals at one point,
i said that it was a neat way to look at the world. that i could
appreciate the im****t which hindu religion made on society if
people were always improving themselves in order to progress up
the ladder. even if it was symbolic, it had a positive effect, you
feel me?
> and then later denied it,
>and then again recently you acted like you did believe it because
>the energy would have to go someplace, or whatever.
yeah. i prefer to look at it in a scientific sort of way and think
of it as energy which disperses into the atmosphere. the soul
stuff is just poetry to make our lives more bearable here on
earth. nothing wrong with quiet meditation and prayer, etc...
--
`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the
Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an
organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe,
energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering
interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same
forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned
astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional
connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind
and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected''
--B.D. Abramson
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